70:5.9 And it was by these steps that the [[executive]] branch of [[government]] gradually came into [[existence]]. The [[clan]] and [[tribal]] [[councils]] continued in an [[advisory]] capacity and as forerunners of the later appearing [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] branches. In Africa, today, all these forms of [[primitive]] [[government]] are in [[actual]] [[existence]] among the various [[tribes]]. | 70:5.9 And it was by these steps that the [[executive]] branch of [[government]] gradually came into [[existence]]. The [[clan]] and [[tribal]] [[councils]] continued in an [[advisory]] capacity and as forerunners of the later appearing [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] branches. In Africa, today, all these forms of [[primitive]] [[government]] are in [[actual]] [[existence]] among the various [[tribes]]. |